Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. Sir Richard Steele

Quotes November 23, 2008

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Gossip
Quotations by Sir Richard Steele

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he’s no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

Author: John Shelby SpongTheme: Nature, IntelligenceWords: person, longer, becomes, universe, looks

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.FailureQuotations by Steve Bartkowski

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.CuriosityQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t agonize. Organize.VictimsQuotations by Florynce R. Kennedy

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.Books – ReadingQuotations by Edwin P. Whipple

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.Age and AgingQuotations by Sir …

Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.PowerQuotations by Harold Macmillan

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.PossibilitiesQuotations by Orison Swett Marden

Character is not made in a crisis — it is only exhibited.CharacterQuotations by Robert Freeman

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.MarriageQuotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton